The Agony and the Ecstasy

The Agony and the Ecstasy
by Carol Reed

The Agony and the Ecstasy
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Actor: Alberto Lupo, Charlton Heston, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews, Rex Harrison
Director: Carol Reed
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Latin (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 138 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

Movie Reviews of The Agony and the Ecstasy

Movie Review: I've waited for over 3 decades to read this again...
Summary: 5 Stars

I was in high school when this book first found it's way into my reach - not that I was reaching all that much for `books' in those days...
This work taught me a new appreciation for patience and for the joys of relaxation through reading.
To find a gently used copy of this story in such fine shape (while the shape of most things in my world have come to change quite a bit...) is truly a gift.
I will slide back in time once again, while taking up this great piece of literature - maybe all the way back to the painting the ceilings of the Sistine Chapel!

Summary of The Agony and the Ecstasy

Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison portray two of the Renaissance's most colorful figures in this historical drama based on Irving Stone's best-seller set in the early 16th century. When Pope Julius ll (Harrison) commissions Michelangelo (Heston) to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist initially refuses. Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, he later destroys his own work and flees to Rome. Eventually resumed, the project becomes a battle of wills fueled by artistic and temperamental differences that form the core of this movie. Nominated for an Oscar? Cinematography and named one of the year's best films by the National Board of Review.
Carol Reed (The Third Man) directed this 1965 portrait of the relationship between Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) and Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison), who commissioned the artist to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Based on a novel by Irving Stone, the script plods along, juggling the dynamics between the two men along with a somewhat perfunctory love story and distracting battle sequences. Reed seems more attuned to the nuances and great pains of the artistic process, as seen in sequences of Michelangelo working. But the overall focus of the film is unfortunately fuzzy. --Tom Keogh

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